Nii Kwate Owoo has over forty years of film experience as a writer, producer and director of feature and documentary films. He has co-produced and directed "OUAGA'' African Cinema Now!" in 1988 and the first African feature film financed by a major TV Network Channel Four (UK) in 1991 with Kwesi Owusu. His career highlights include many works like Odupon Atutu (Death, Burial and Installation of an Asante King, as well as the internationally acclaimed Women of Substance a feature documentary (shot in six African countries for the Africa Women's Development Fund (AWDF), sponsored by the Ford Foundation. He has a long and distinguished track record in academia, having founded the Media Research Unit of the Institute of African Studies University of Ghana, Legon, in 1978.